The Alaska Beacon has an important story today by reporter James Brooks about some of the secrets that Gov. Mike Dunleavy, the Alaska Gasline Development Corp. and Glenfarne have kept from legislators and the public.
There is no reason why a redacted version of this document was not released to lawmakers and the public to show the overall terms of the deal the state cut with Glenfarne.
Read MoreWhen Petersburg Dan Sullivan is returned to the election ballot for the U.S. Senate election, as he will be, Alaskans will have one Dan Sullivan with the ability to make public comments about the debacle in Iran, voter suppression, fuel prices and the rest.
Right now we don’t have that.
We only have federal employee Amanda Coyne, ordered by Sullivan to recycle tired talking points in place of Ohio Sen. Dan Sullivan.
Read MoreFormer Anchorage Mayor Dave Bronson, a Republican candidate for governor, picked Josh Church of Fairbanks as his running mate.
Church, who is the brother of Seth Church, a Fairbanks contractor and member of the UA Board of Regents, did not like my blog post about his reaction to his stolen sandbags. ave Bronson, a Republican candidate for governor, picks Josh Church as his running mate.
Church, who is the brother of Seth Church, a Fairbanks contractor and member of the UA Board of Regents, did not like my blog post about his reaction to his stolen sandbags.
Read MoreThe Alaska Supreme Court rejected the effort by the state and advocates of the Pearl Creek charter school Monday to overturn a lower court order and mandate opening the school in August.
But the Pearl Creek planning group filed two new motions in Superior Court Monday trying once more to get an order to open the school, so there is still some uncertainty.
Read MoreFairbanksan Josh Church, a right-wing candidate chosen by Republican gubernatorial candidate Dave Bronson as a running mate, is making wild and unsubstantiated claims about “liberals” damaging Bronson/Church campaign signs.
And it’s not just liberal boogeymen in Fairbanks who are the problem. The menacing marauders have been trained by teachers in public schools to disrespect private property, envy people with wealth and lash out at those who don’t agree with them, according to the light guv hopeful.
Read MoreAnchorage Rep. Chuck Kopp, the House majority leader, could have been speaking for the oil companies Saturday when he argued for keeping the Hilcorp loophole intact and rejecting the Senate version of the gas line bill.
The Hilcorp loophole will become the Glenfarne loophole, exempting many companies from paying the graduated income tax that applies to oil and gas companies like ExxonMobil and ConocoPhillips.
Read MoreBy an 11-9 vote, the Alaska Senate moved to close the Hilcorp loophole as part of a gas pipeline bill on the last day of the legislative special session.
The Senate approved the bill 12-8. The House did not bring it up, however, and the special session ended. The next special session begins Saturday.
Read MoreSomething important happened this week on the gas pipeline.
The “Build the Line!” cheerleaders in Fairbanks and elsewhere parroting Glenfarne propaganda without examining any details didn’t notice.
The sloganeers were so busy getting angry at legislators they didn’t object when Glenfarne asked for a “technical amendment” that would make the Fairbanks spur line more expensive for Alaska customers of the gas pipeline.
Read MoreThe Senate amended the gasline bill Friday to include provisions for a project labor agreement.
The amendment was needed Sen. Bill Wielechowski said, because the labor unions that had negotiated and recently celebrated the signing of a project labor agreement thought that the deal with binding.
But Glenfarne and Gov. Mike Dunleavy announced later that it was not binding, Wielechowski said.
Read MoreSomebody needs to tell Rep. Mia Costello and Sen. George Rauscher that the gasline is no laughing matter.
I bring this up because it appears Mia and George have been captured laughing, perhaps about the gas pipeline.
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